“I bake when I am mad,” Virginia said with a strange calm. This had clearly been an epic rage. Her anger—blended with flour, butter and sugar—expressed more than that saccharine cliché of “baking with love.” It had power.
Author: Katherine Alford
Katherine Alford ran a New York Times 4-star kitchen, has been a Greenmarket Manager and instructor and director of Peter Kump’s Cooking School and spent the last twenty years at the Food Network—ultimately, as the Senior Vice President of Culinary, where she led the culinary team for TV, digital and print. She ran the test kitchen that created multiple cookbooks that were IACP finalists, Food & Wine Best of the Best and New York Times bestsellers and had a column in Food Network Magazine. She is the co-author with Kathy Gunst of "Rage Baking."